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This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2017 (world premiere/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.
- Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
- Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
- Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
- Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
- Big Little Lies (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- ★ (Johann Lurf)
- Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
- The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
- Once There Was Brasilia (Adirley Queirós)
- 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
Polls Top 10 (eligible titles appear here)
- Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)
- Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)
- Slack Bay (2016, Bruno Dumont)
- Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
- The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
- A Quiet Passion (2016, Terence Davies)
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017, Robin Campillo)
- Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes)
- The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)
- Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda)
My Top 10 Discoveries During 2017 (for first-time viewings of films made before 2000)
- Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
- Gimme Shelter (1970, David Maysles, Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
- Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)
- Days of Glory (1944, Jacques Tourneur)
- Circle of Danger (1951, Jacques Tourneur)
- A Hero Never Dies (1998, Johnnie To)
- Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Cousin Bobby (1992, Jonathan Demme)
- Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times or Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
- Who Am I This Time? (1982, Jonathan Demme)
Other 2017 films I’ve seen
- Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heinz Emigholz) – 7.0
- I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.) – 7.0
- Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) – 6.9
- Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) – 6.9
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) – 6.9
- Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda) – 6.8
- On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.8
- Quest (Jonathan Olshefski) – 6.7
- Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie) – 6.7
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader) – 6.6
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 6.6
- Damned Summer (Pedro Cabeleira) – 6.6
- The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho) – 6.5
- Ulysses in the Subway (Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser, & Ken and Flo Jacobs) – 6.5
- Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.5
- Let the Sun Shine In (Claire Denis) – 6.4
- Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa) – 6.4
- 3/4 (Ilian Metev) – 6.3
- Life and Nothing More (Antonio Méndez Esparza) – 6.3
- Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel) – 6.3
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach) – 6.3
- The Florida Project (Sean Baker) – 6.3
- The Rider (Chloé Zhao) – 6.2
- Distant Constellation (Shevaun Mizrahi) – 6.2
- The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois) – 6.1
- Western (Valeska Grisebach) – 6.1
- The Day After (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.1
- Gabriel and the Mountain (Fellipe Barbosa) – 6.1
- A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté) – 6.1
- Flames (Zefrey Throwell) – 6.1
- Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi) – 6.1
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 6.0
- Filmus (Clément Safra) – 6.0
- A Ghost Story (David Lowery) – 6.0
- Félicité (Alain Gomis) – 6.0
- The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola) – 6.0
- Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry) – 6.0
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) – 5.9
- Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) – 5.9
- Milla (Valérie Massadian) – 5.9
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John Cameron Mitchell) – 5.9
- Okja (Bong Joon-ho) – 5.9
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel) – 5.8
- Downsizing (Alexander Payne) – 5.8
- Drift (Helena Wittmann) – 5.8
- 12 Days (Raymond Depardon) – 5.8
- Napalm (Claude Lanzmann) – 5.8
- Ray Meets Helen (Alan Rudolph) – 5.7
- Ex Libris – The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman) – 5.7
- I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoniand) – 5.7
- Happy End (Michael Haneke) – 5.6
- Common Carrier (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) – 5.6
- Dim the Fluorescents (Daniel Warth) – 5.6
- Maison du Bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz) – 5.6
- Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges) – 5.6
- Gemini (Aaron Katz) – 5.5
- Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) – 5.5
- The Green Fog (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) – 5.5
- Strong Island (Yance Ford) – 5.5
- El Mar La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki – 5.5
- Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin) – 5.5
- Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley) – 5.5
- Good Luck (Ben Russell) – 5.4
- Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve) – 5.4
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) – 5.4
- The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini) – 5.4
- Railway Sleepers (Sompot Chidgasornpongse) – 5.4
- Scary Mother (Ana Urushadze) – 5.4
- The First Lap (Kim Dae-hwan) – 5.4
- Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius) – 5.4
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson) – 5.3
- Manhunt (John Woo) – 5.3
- Do Donkeys Act? (David Redmon & Ashley Sabin) – 5.3
- Brimstone & Glory (Viktor Jakovleski) – 5.3
- Sweating the Small Stuff (Ninomiya Ryutaro) – 5.3
- Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari) – 5.2
- Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) – 5.2
- Makala (Emmanuel Gras) – 5.2
- Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing) – 5.1
- somniloquies (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) – 5.2
- You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay) – 5.1
- Meteors (Gürcan Keltek) – 5.1
- The Disaster Artist (James Franco) – 5.1
- Closeness (Kantemir Balagov) – 5.1
- Ismaël’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin) – 5.1
- Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) – 5.1
- 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] (Heinz Emigholz) – 5.1
- Get Out (Jordan Peele) – 5.0
- Let the Summer Never Come Again (Alexandre Koberidze) – 5.0
- The Venerable W. (Barbet Schroeder) – 5.0
- Donkeyote (Chico Pereira) – 5.0
- Alive in France (Abel Ferrara) – 5.0
- Frost (Sharunas Bartas) – 4.9
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) – 4.9
- Untitled (Michael Glawogger & Monika Willi) – 4.8
- The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) – 4.8
- Paddington 2 (Paul King) – 4.8
- Mudbound (Dee Rees) – 4.8
- Farewell (Astrid Johanna Ofner) – 4.8
- Columbus (Kogonada) – 4.8
- Song to Song (Terrence Malick) – 4.7
- Ouroboros (Basma Alsharif) – 4.7
- Bodied (Joseph Kahn) – 4.7
- Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing) – 4.7
- A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) – 4.7
- Last Men in Aleppo (Firas Fayyad & Steen Johannessen) – 4.7
- Unrest (Philippe Grandrieux) – 4.7
- Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Léonor Serraille) – 4.7
- Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) – 4.7
- Beyond the One (Anna Marziano) – 4.6
- Barbara (Mathieu Amalric) – 4.6
- Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee) – 4.6
- Sleep Has Her House (Scott Barley) – 4.6
- Radiance (Naomi Kawase) – 4.6
- In the Waves (Jacquelyn Mills) – 4.6
- Light Years (Manuel Abramovich) – 4.6
- Based On a True Story (Roman Polanski) – 4.6
- 78/52 (Alexandre O. Philippe) – 4.6
- Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.5
- A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa) – 4.5
- Araby (João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa) – 4.5
- Bickels [Socialism] (Heinz Emigholz) – 4.5
- Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 4.5
- Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler) – 4.5
- The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki) – 4.4
- The Square (Ruben Östlund) – 4.4
- Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen) – 4.3
- Occidental (Neïl Beloufa) – 4.3
- Spell Reel (Filipa César) – 4.3
- The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) – 4.3
- Golden Years (André Téchiné) – 4.3
- Ava (Sadaf Foroughi) – 4.2
- Thirst Street (Nathan Silver) – 4.2
- Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) – 4.2
- Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) – 4.2
- I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Macon Blair) – 4.2
- Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh) – 4.1
- On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi) – 4.0
- Spoor (Agnieszka Holland & Kasia Adamik) – 4.0
- Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman) – 3.9
- Dark River (Clio Barnard) – 3.9
- Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias) – 3.8
- Wormwood (Errol Morris) – 3.8
- The Post (Steven Spielberg) – 3.7
- Rodin (Jacques Doillon) – 3.7
- Rey (Niles Atallah) – 3.7
- Thelma (Joachim Trier) – 3.6
- The Mount of Ants (Riccardo Palladino) – 3.5
- The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico) – 3.4
- Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) – 3.4
- mother! (Darren Aronofsky) – 3.3
- In the Fade (Fatih Akin) – 3.1
- Jupiter’s Moon (Kornél Mundruczó) – 2.9
- Forest Movie (Matthew Taylor Blais) – 2.8
- Double Lover (François Ozon) – 2.6